obstructive sleep apnea\17thc royal dwarfs\dwarf sightings in public

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Forgive me if I responded to this thread before this week, I can't find

evidence that I did... I had the throat surgery years ago, like 10-15 years,

the uvula- paleto-pharyngeo - plasty - something like that - has many of the

same letters. They removed the uvula and carved out more room in the back of

the throat. Kind of like after they've taken the tonsils and adenoids

(decades before that), this is what's next in terms of throat blockage, short

of removing some of the tongue :-?

I gather they do a simpler version of it now, with laser. It really helped.

It didn't cure my snoring or apnea, but both are much better than before. I

know some achons have had nose surgery which I guess has helped them somewhat

also. I gather that our biggest problem is structurally between the throat

and the nose, and surgically unreachable, so the throat or nose surgeries

help compensate.

Re the Velasquez painting, he is probably responsible for the most number of

paintings with dwarfs in them, not coincidentally because he was painting

Spanish royalty. I have not studied the issue as some folks have (I highly

recommend the book Fred mentioned though for a collection of such art), but

in different times and places dwarfs were indeed gladiators, royal pets, and

those were the times we lived. I'd always thought the companion for the

royal children was one of the better gigs, at least human, ok not too far up

from royal pet, but maybe I was looking at it through rose-colored glasses,

that it was more like a governess than pet. One of the Velasquez paintings

is in the Museum of Fine Arts here and I enjoyed pointing it out to my son

Jani, who of course was less impressed, but that's his job I think ...

Also, just to add reassurance to the sporadic discussion about approaching

other dwarfs in public. Waiting for the elevator at the ENT's the other day,

I recognized a achon type nose etc. on a young child, had eye contact with

the mom, and opened the conversation with a smile and " How old is she? " ,

knowing they must get that a zillion times a day anyway. The daughter is 4

(adorable of course.) The mom has info about LPA but hadn't pursued it yet

and asked if her child was too young to benefit. I acknowledged my bias, but

said no (not too young.) Gave her my address and showed the girl picture of

Jani. It worked out well. Poor mother was probably fielding questions from

the girl all the way to the car. :-)